Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-66
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21210000066
Alternate number:
106 (original number, Casts), 256 (original number, Museum), and 8-5066 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of torso of a supposed Dionysos, a trifle under life size. Parian marble. height 0.95 meters. Missing: most of the left legs, the right arm, and a one separately made and cemented slice of the left humerus with its wrap. A work, according to Kabbadias 256, of Alexandrian period. Found in the excavation of the theatre at Sikyon, Greece, in 1888. A naked youth with a chlamys hanging folded from his left shoulder. He has his left hand set against his waist, and his head turned leftward, face up, like a person in ecstasy. Faulty sculpture. Forehead and skull too high. Location: From a marble found by Professor M. L. D’Ooge of Michigan University when Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. National Museum, at Athens.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of the National Museum, Athens
Culture or time period:
Greek Classical Period (480–323 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-66, described as Cast of torso of a supposed Dionysos, a trifle under life size. Parian marble. height 0.95 meters. Missing: most of the left legs, the right arm, and a one separately made and cemented slice of the left humerus with its wrap. A work, according to Kabbadias 256, of Alexandrian period. Found in the excavation of the theatre at Sikyon, Greece, in 1888. A naked youth with a chlamys hanging folded from his left shoulder. He has his left hand set against his waist, and his head turned leftward, face up, like a person in ecstasy. Faulty sculpture. Forehead and skull too high. Location: From a marble found by Professor M. L. D’Ooge of Michigan University when Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. National Museum, at Athens.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-66, described as Cast of torso of a supposed Dionysos, a trifle under life size. Parian marble. height 0.95 meters. Missing: most of the left legs, the right arm, and a one separately made and cemented slice of the left humerus with its wrap. A work, according to Kabbadias 256, of Alexandrian period. Found in the excavation of the theatre at Sikyon, Greece, in 1888. A naked youth with a chlamys hanging folded from his left shoulder. He has his left hand set against his waist, and his head turned leftward, face up, like a person in ecstasy. Faulty sculpture. Forehead and skull too high. Location: From a marble found by Professor M. L. D’Ooge of Michigan University when Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. National Museum, at Athens.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-66, described as Cast of torso of a supposed Dionysos, a trifle under life size. Parian marble. height 0.95 meters. Missing: most of the left legs, the right arm, and a one separately made and cemented slice of the left humerus with its wrap. A work, according to Kabbadias 256, of Alexandrian period. Found in the excavation of the theatre at Sikyon, Greece, in 1888. A naked youth with a chlamys hanging folded from his left shoulder. He has his left hand set against his waist, and his head turned leftward, face up, like a person in ecstasy. Faulty sculpture. Forehead and skull too high. Location: From a marble found by Professor M. L. D’Ooge of Michigan University when Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. National Museum, at Athens.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-66, described as Cast of torso of a supposed Dionysos, a trifle under life size. Parian marble. height 0.95 meters. Missing: most of the left legs, the right arm, and a one separately made and cemented slice of the left humerus with its wrap. A work, according to Kabbadias 256, of Alexandrian period. Found in the excavation of the theatre at Sikyon, Greece, in 1888. A naked youth with a chlamys hanging folded from his left shoulder. He has his left hand set against his waist, and his head turned leftward, face up, like a person in ecstasy. Faulty sculpture. Forehead and skull too high. Location: From a marble found by Professor M. L. D’Ooge of Michigan University when Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. National Museum, at Athens.

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